Apart from running her many businesses, training as a lawyer, and dealing with Kim Kardashian North’s constant trolling. She recently helped settle a long-standing criminal case for stolen Egyptian coffins.
Yes, you have read correctly.
According to The Post, a photo of the reality star posing next to the Golden Ark of the Met Gala in 2018 helped staff locate the stolen artifact. The coffin, purchased by the Met in 2017, originally contained the mummified body of a first-century BC senior. Pop Nedjemanh. During the revolution in Egypt in 2011, the coffins were loot by Minta and transport via the United Arab Emirates to Germany, where Robben Deeb. Director of the Dionysos Gallery in Hamburg, recovered the coffin and granted it a fake export permit.
From there, he landed in France, where an antique dealer sold him to the Met for $4 million.
Scroll forward a year, and the coffin provided the perfect backdrop for Kim K’s gleaming golden gaze at the gala that finally brought him back officially to Egype and they say it was known for no reason.
As explained in an episode of Ben Louis’s Art Bust podcast, a looter involved in exhuming the coffin contacted the prosecutor’s antiquities department after failing to receive their share of payments. The chief prosecutor, Matthew Bogdanos, who had been trying to find a smuggling ring for five years. Immediately filed a lawsuit against the item and notified Matt of its development.
The museum was able to confirm his identity through the mummy’s sternum still hiding in the coffin.
Surprisingly, this is not Kim’s first experience of losing an ancient artifact. Just last year, the reality show star faced accusations from the US government that they had brought stolen ancient Roman statues to America.
Kim, who originally purchased the statue – a fragment of Myron’s Samian Athens from Belgium’s Axel Vervoordt Gallery in 2016. They was arrest at the US border after trying to import it with the wrong documents. It was soon confirm that the factory had been “loot, smuggle and illegally export” from Italy. Good luck next time, we guess.